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Radio script of Opinion Roundup for Friday, June 6, 2003
Hello. I'm Steve Hamberger with the V-O-A News Now "Opinion Roundup".
MD OPINION ROUNDUP THEME -- IN & UNDER
HOST: American newspapers are commenting on an internal Justice Department report about treatment of Muslim detainees after the september 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Department's Inspector General says more than 700 detainees, most of them in the country illegally, had their civil rights violated by F-B-I and other federal agents. Editorials are attacking both the Justice Department and Attorney General John Ashcroft. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution makes this comparison. VOICE: Repressive regimes, such as Nazi Germany or Saddam Hussein's Iraq, arrest people suspected of opposing the govenrment and send them away with no notice to their families of their whereabouts. But in America, where the Constitution guarantees civil liberties, that couldn't happen, could it ? It did. it happened to hundreds of men mostly from Pakistan. the Justice Department's unapologetic response suggests that Attorney General John Ashcroft fails to appreciate the need for safeguards.
HOST: The Saint Paul Minnesota Pioneer Press agrees:
VOICE: Racism and disregard for the rule of law recur as ugly parts of the American experience. The investigation concluded that authorities trampled on the civil rights of hundreds of immigrants hauled into custody in the New York area. For the Justice Department to dismiss the conclusions is an affront to all Americans.
HOST: Missouri's Saint Louis Post-Dispatch quotes some of the harsher points made by the inspector-general:
VOICE: Many of the men were held in high security cells. For three weeks, they were trapped in a communications blackout, denied contact with family and lawyers. They spent 23 hours a day in cells, where lights were on day and night and when moved were put in leg irons with heavy chains.
HOST: Tennessee's Memphis Commercial Appeal is clearly not satisfied with the Justice Department report:
VOICE: The Department's response to its own devastating findings was consistent with the end-justified-the-means posture Attorney General … Ashcroft has maintained since the September 11 attacks.
HOST: The Chicago Tribune is somewhat more sympathetic to the government, reminding readers:
VOICE: A catastrophe on the order of September 11 doesn't follow any script. It stunned this nation, producing a sudden and overwhelming sense of vulnerability. the debate between the need for national security and the need for due process will go on, all the more urgently under the cloud to terrorism. The inspector general's report is valuable to this process. The Justice Department can't dismiss it.
HOST:MD OPINION ROUNDUP THEME --- SNEAK & HOLD UNDER HOST What do you think? We would love to hear from you. Send an e-mail to opinion@voanews.com...or send standard mail to V-O-A News Now, Voice of America, Washington D-C, 20237, U-S-A. With Opinion Roundup, I'm Steve Hamberger.
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